The energy cost of rebooting and restarting all your applications is non-zero. For my iBook, it worked out that a boot cost the same as about 18 hours sleep.
If I just want to stop fast I'll brake the way I always do, squeeze on rapidly but smoothly to allow weight shift, then sit on the limit. Limit braking is a skill that rapidly becomes automatic, and once you're used to doing it yourself, Yet Another Bloody Automatic System frigging with my rigging is just a pain.
I find it's automatic on the track or a quiet country road, but every time I've had to do an emergency stop I've either briefly locked up or, if the car had ABS, felt the tell-tale thump from the brake pedal as it kicked in. ABS frequently annoys me (braking on bad surfaces is a particular bugbear), but when a kid steps out in front of me on a dark, wet evening in December I know the ABS is going to reliably stop me locking up, while my efforts to find the edge of the friction circle as I swerve and brake probably wouldn't work out some of the time. You may be good, but can you avoid locking up in an emergency 10 times out of 10? 100 times out of 100?
Of course you can choose not to, and you pay a little to accesss the wi-fi area.
A little? You've never seen Openzone's prices, have you? They don't charge a little, they charge a hell of a lot. The minimum spend is £6 ($12), for which you get a whopping 60 minutes of (in my limited experience) 56k-modem speeds and timeouts. So, if you stop for a coffee, check your email and read slashdot for a bit the net access will have cost you three times as much as the coffee.
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Perhaps giving credit to BoingBoing via Digg via J Random Blogger for drawing attention to a news article about a press release is ethical, but it wouldn't be unethical to also link to as close to the original source as is practical.
Actually, I do know the meaning of "open source", as distinct from "Open Source" as defined by the OSI. My capitalizing Free Software was a deliberate hint at that distinction.
PGP is open source, though not Free Software (you can read the source but not modify, redistribute...). What's your FOSS software's solution for remote rebooting?
What is it with calling products SKUs? It has more syllables and is less descriptive than the options already in common usage (product, model, package, version...). Even TFA calls it a new model, not a new SKU. As far as I can see "SKU" has zero advantage over the other options for anyone who isn't deeply involved in stock-keeping. It's a cumbersome catch-all technical term which has no relevance to normal people. The fact that it's a new model is the real news here; a new SKU might just mean a different game bundle or different packaging.
I'm not sure, but it would seem to me that Google would have thought of spoofing it's IPs long ago, to avoid people being able to track them, though I can't say how you'd go about that.
The fundamental problem with spoofing IPs for this kind of work is that you need to use the right IP to get any data back. You need to have real IPs which are 'disposable'. A botnet, in other words. Google could, if they were evil, create the world's largest botnet by getting JavaScript embedded in search results pages or ads to do the work for them. The Google JavaScript Botnet would make for a pretty potent DOS tool too; making HTTP requests may not be the optimum DOS attack, but when you can generate billions of them and have them coming from all over the internet...
Beh. Ten years ago, when me and a bunch of friends used to write simple games as high school kids, we never got worse than some kind of a minimal spanning tree, doubly-connected w/o bridges if the game in question allowed dropping nodes. This is basic graph theory, something any CS student has to know.
And highly paid professionals should be a lot better educated than a group of kids, right?
Halo 3 is an FPS and the networking code has to handle internet play. That means that latency is important and the links are likely to be ADSL or cable modems, which have non-trivial latency. Pumping your data through multiple links of a spanning tree given those constraints would be completely fucking insane.
Apple may intend to make a PDA-type device, but I very much doubt they intend to get into the PDA business. Consumers don't want PDAs and Apple is a consumer company. Consumers want "web tablets" or whatever. We'll probably call them iTablets (or whatever Apple call theirs), in much the same way "iPod" has become a generic term for a digital music player. I want a web tablet thingy. I don't want a PDA, but I do want a web browser on a slim A5-ish touch screen.
Package managers do not solve the problem, they just handle most of the hassle for you. If anything, they exacerbate the problem by encouraging the very interdependencies they are necessary to handle. I'm not much of a fan of the shared library concept for anything other than "system" files (for a fairly broad definition of "system") because of the installation and "maintenance" hassles they create. You may have a dozen programs which use a particular library, but do you ever run them all at once? Probably not. So just keep a dozen copies on disk; that way they can all be different versions if needs be. Occasionally you'll get two copies of essentially the same code in RAM, but library code generally isn't usually the bulk of your RAM usage. Once you get rid of the idea of sharing files between programs your software installation worries cease to exist, because installation ceases to exist. You just have one executable blob which you can copy anywhere. A good proportion of Mac applications work this way and trust me, it beats the shit out of apt, portage or any other package manager I've tried. It takes almost zero user effort. Zero maintenance. It is hugely reliable.
Ms. Schwartz suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, but the RIAA has pressed the case against her.
What does her having MS have to do with the price of fish? The way it's phrased ("...but the RIAA has pressed the case...") seems to be suggesting that people with debilitating conditions should be above the law.
It may not burn your skin, but the excruciating pain will be permanently be burnt into your mind. The more primitive parts of your brain will associate that pain with the things around you at the time - the people, the place, the situation - and every time your experience sufficiently similar situations again those parts of your brain will be screaming "RUN LIKE FUCK! RIGHT FUCKING NOW! INTENSE PAIN IMMINENT!". That's a lasting effect; one which years of therapy could likely dull but never entirely remove.
Macs won't be a viable market for games till Apple decide to make 'consumer' machines with decent graphics cards in them. As it is, if you want decent graphics you need to pay $3000 for a Mac Pro.
Not when that prediction is also a law, no. All it takes for something to become a law (in the scientific sense) is a consistent observed pattern. The law of gravity, for example, is nothing more than concise expression of a consistently observed pattern of behaviour. Moore's law is also a concise expression of a consistently observed pattern of behaviour; it is thus a law.
The car raises up half an inch not because the radius of the tyre has increased by half an inch, but because its profile more closely approximates a circle. It's gone from a really rather flat-bottomed circle not not-quite-so-flat-bottomed circle.
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The energy cost of rebooting and restarting all your applications is non-zero. For my iBook, it worked out that a boot cost the same as about 18 hours sleep.
I find it's automatic on the track or a quiet country road, but every time I've had to do an emergency stop I've either briefly locked up or, if the car had ABS, felt the tell-tale thump from the brake pedal as it kicked in. ABS frequently annoys me (braking on bad surfaces is a particular bugbear), but when a kid steps out in front of me on a dark, wet evening in December I know the ABS is going to reliably stop me locking up, while my efforts to find the edge of the friction circle as I swerve and brake probably wouldn't work out some of the time. You may be good, but can you avoid locking up in an emergency 10 times out of 10? 100 times out of 100?
A little? You've never seen Openzone's prices, have you? They don't charge a little, they charge a hell of a lot. The minimum spend is £6 ($12), for which you get a whopping 60 minutes of (in my limited experience) 56k-modem speeds and timeouts. So, if you stop for a coffee, check your email and read slashdot for a bit the net access will have cost you three times as much as the coffee.
Perhaps giving credit to BoingBoing via Digg via J Random Blogger for drawing attention to a news article about a press release is ethical, but it wouldn't be unethical to also link to as close to the original source as is practical.
I stand corrected.
It was curiosity and rhetoric in equal measure; thanks for the insight.
Erm, hang on. You weren't asking a rhetorical question, were you?
Actually, I do know the meaning of "open source", as distinct from "Open Source" as defined by the OSI. My capitalizing Free Software was a deliberate hint at that distinction.
Mutations may be random and directionless, but evolution tends in the direction of greater fitness.
PGP is open source, though not Free Software (you can read the source but not modify, redistribute...). What's your FOSS software's solution for remote rebooting?
What is it with calling products SKUs? It has more syllables and is less descriptive than the options already in common usage (product, model, package, version...). Even TFA calls it a new model, not a new SKU. As far as I can see "SKU" has zero advantage over the other options for anyone who isn't deeply involved in stock-keeping. It's a cumbersome catch-all technical term which has no relevance to normal people. The fact that it's a new model is the real news here; a new SKU might just mean a different game bundle or different packaging.
The fundamental problem with spoofing IPs for this kind of work is that you need to use the right IP to get any data back. You need to have real IPs which are 'disposable'. A botnet, in other words. Google could, if they were evil, create the world's largest botnet by getting JavaScript embedded in search results pages or ads to do the work for them. The Google JavaScript Botnet would make for a pretty potent DOS tool too; making HTTP requests may not be the optimum DOS attack, but when you can generate billions of them and have them coming from all over the internet...
Halo 3 is an FPS and the networking code has to handle internet play. That means that latency is important and the links are likely to be ADSL or cable modems, which have non-trivial latency. Pumping your data through multiple links of a spanning tree given those constraints would be completely fucking insane.
Apple may intend to make a PDA-type device, but I very much doubt they intend to get into the PDA business. Consumers don't want PDAs and Apple is a consumer company. Consumers want "web tablets" or whatever. We'll probably call them iTablets (or whatever Apple call theirs), in much the same way "iPod" has become a generic term for a digital music player. I want a web tablet thingy. I don't want a PDA, but I do want a web browser on a slim A5-ish touch screen.
Package managers do not solve the problem, they just handle most of the hassle for you. If anything, they exacerbate the problem by encouraging the very interdependencies they are necessary to handle. I'm not much of a fan of the shared library concept for anything other than "system" files (for a fairly broad definition of "system") because of the installation and "maintenance" hassles they create. You may have a dozen programs which use a particular library, but do you ever run them all at once? Probably not. So just keep a dozen copies on disk; that way they can all be different versions if needs be. Occasionally you'll get two copies of essentially the same code in RAM, but library code generally isn't usually the bulk of your RAM usage. Once you get rid of the idea of sharing files between programs your software installation worries cease to exist, because installation ceases to exist. You just have one executable blob which you can copy anywhere. A good proportion of Mac applications work this way and trust me, it beats the shit out of apt, portage or any other package manager I've tried. It takes almost zero user effort. Zero maintenance. It is hugely reliable.
Who are you to question who I am to question that which I wish to question?
Who are you to question who he is to judge what is a better aspiration?
What does her having MS have to do with the price of fish? The way it's phrased ("...but the RIAA has pressed the case...") seems to be suggesting that people with debilitating conditions should be above the law.
I doubt you can be unwillingly subjected to the sensation of your entire body being on fire without permanent psychological scars.
It may not burn your skin, but the excruciating pain will be permanently be burnt into your mind. The more primitive parts of your brain will associate that pain with the things around you at the time - the people, the place, the situation - and every time your experience sufficiently similar situations again those parts of your brain will be screaming "RUN LIKE FUCK! RIGHT FUCKING NOW! INTENSE PAIN IMMINENT!". That's a lasting effect; one which years of therapy could likely dull but never entirely remove.
I can neither confirm nor deny that.
Except USB uses differential signalling, so interspersing it with ground wires wouldn't be that much of a win.
Macs won't be a viable market for games till Apple decide to make 'consumer' machines with decent graphics cards in them. As it is, if you want decent graphics you need to pay $3000 for a Mac Pro.
Not when that prediction is also a law, no. All it takes for something to become a law (in the scientific sense) is a consistent observed pattern. The law of gravity, for example, is nothing more than concise expression of a consistently observed pattern of behaviour. Moore's law is also a concise expression of a consistently observed pattern of behaviour; it is thus a law.
I suggest you look up what "law" and "theory" mean in the context of science.
The car raises up half an inch not because the radius of the tyre has increased by half an inch, but because its profile more closely approximates a circle. It's gone from a really rather flat-bottomed circle not not-quite-so-flat-bottomed circle.